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It was more than a year before the Police Department would adopt body cameras, and about nine months before bystanders recorded five SFPD officers shooting Mario Woods to death. Perez Lopez's death was not captured on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Police Chief Greg Suhr initially said that Tiffe and Reboli were responding to a report of a fight on Folsom Street near 24th Street and that Perez Lopez had charged at the officers with a large knife raised over his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnoldo Casillas, a civil rights attorney who represents Perez Lopez's Guatemalan parents, called that narrative into question when he \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released an autopsy report\u003c/a> finding Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The settlement of this case resulted from the clients' concerns for the risk at trial and -- because of their own personal circumstances -- they were unwilling to take that risk,\" Casillas said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco City Attorney's Office, in a statement provided by a spokeswoman, said: \"We can confirm that we have reached a tentative settlement that contemplates dismissal of the entire lawsuit and no admission of wrongdoing. The terms of the agreement are contingent upon final approval of the Police Department and the Board of Supervisors and are not public at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced last April\u003c/a> his office wouldn't charge Officers Tiffe and Reboli because there was insufficient evidence to do so. The district attorney's investigation remained open for more than two years and delayed the civil case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case,\" Gascón said when he announced his charging decision. \"I cannot, and I will not, file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was complicated by the involvement of another man, Abraham Perez, who was allegedly fighting with Perez Lopez in the street before police arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney's analysis, Reboli detained Perez in the street and was moving him toward the sidewalk as Tiffe tried to grab Perez Lopez, who broke away and allegedly slashed at the officer with \"a very large knife,\" according to a summary of Tiffe's statement to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez then allegedly ran toward Reboli, who was coming to Tiffe's aid. Tiffe fired once and Reboli fired five times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a summary of Tiffe's statement to investigators: \"He didn’t know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian witnesses, including two of Perez Lopez's roommates, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disputed\u003c/a> the officers' account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo, a neighbor, helped broker a meeting between the witnesses and district attorney's investigators in April 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think about his friends who witnessed the shooting, who have been through so much,\" Rojo said after KQED informed her that the civil case had tentatively settled. \"There’s a part of me that is relieved that they don’t have to go to trial and live through this another time without any guarantee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: \"There’s a part of me that wanted the truth to be exposed of what happened. The city really is responsible for this death. The police are responsible for this death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas said Monday that his firm spent over $100,000 preparing to bring a lawsuit in the case to trial, including retaining expert witnesses to rebut the district attorney's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every aspect of the district attorney’s basis for their refusal to prosecute the officers here was contradicted by our experts,\" Casillas said. \"Because of the settlement that won’t get much public light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas said he can't disclose the terms of the settlement, but said it contains no conditions and is simply a payment to Perez Lopez's parents, Juan Perez and Margarita Lopez Perez, who live in rural Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From the legal standpoint it’s the end of it, but it’s really not the end of it,\" said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. He, like Rojo, was part of a network of advocates who worked to bring the facts of Perez Lopez's to light. \"We are very determined. We are not going to let the story go away.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The settlement means evidence in one of San Francisco's most controversial fatal police shootings in recent years won't be heard by a jury.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516663793,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":820},"headData":{"title":"S.F. to Settle Case of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Man Police Killed With Six Shots From Behind | KQED","description":"The settlement means evidence in one of San Francisco's most controversial fatal police shootings in recent years won't be heard by a jury.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"S.F. to Settle Case of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Man Police Killed With Six Shots From Behind","datePublished":"2018-01-22T22:34:34.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-22T23:29:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11643572 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11643572","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/22/s-f-to-settle-case-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-man-police-killed-with-six-shots-from-behind/","disqusTitle":"S.F. to Settle Case of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Man Police Killed With Six Shots From Behind","path":"/news/11643572/s-f-to-settle-case-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-man-police-killed-with-six-shots-from-behind","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Parties in one of San Francisco's most controversial fatal police shootings in recent years reached a settlement agreement on Friday, meaning evidence in the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez will never reach a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez, 20, was shot from behind by plainclothes SFPD Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli on Feb. 26, 2015. It was more than a year before the Police Department would adopt body cameras, and about nine months before bystanders recorded five SFPD officers shooting Mario Woods to death. Perez Lopez's death was not captured on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Police Chief Greg Suhr initially said that Tiffe and Reboli were responding to a report of a fight on Folsom Street near 24th Street and that Perez Lopez had charged at the officers with a large knife raised over his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnoldo Casillas, a civil rights attorney who represents Perez Lopez's Guatemalan parents, called that narrative into question when he \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released an autopsy report\u003c/a> finding Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The settlement of this case resulted from the clients' concerns for the risk at trial and -- because of their own personal circumstances -- they were unwilling to take that risk,\" Casillas said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco City Attorney's Office, in a statement provided by a spokeswoman, said: \"We can confirm that we have reached a tentative settlement that contemplates dismissal of the entire lawsuit and no admission of wrongdoing. The terms of the agreement are contingent upon final approval of the Police Department and the Board of Supervisors and are not public at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced last April\u003c/a> his office wouldn't charge Officers Tiffe and Reboli because there was insufficient evidence to do so. The district attorney's investigation remained open for more than two years and delayed the civil case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case,\" Gascón said when he announced his charging decision. \"I cannot, and I will not, file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was complicated by the involvement of another man, Abraham Perez, who was allegedly fighting with Perez Lopez in the street before police arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney's analysis, Reboli detained Perez in the street and was moving him toward the sidewalk as Tiffe tried to grab Perez Lopez, who broke away and allegedly slashed at the officer with \"a very large knife,\" according to a summary of Tiffe's statement to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez then allegedly ran toward Reboli, who was coming to Tiffe's aid. Tiffe fired once and Reboli fired five times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a summary of Tiffe's statement to investigators: \"He didn’t know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian witnesses, including two of Perez Lopez's roommates, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disputed\u003c/a> the officers' account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo, a neighbor, helped broker a meeting between the witnesses and district attorney's investigators in April 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think about his friends who witnessed the shooting, who have been through so much,\" Rojo said after KQED informed her that the civil case had tentatively settled. \"There’s a part of me that is relieved that they don’t have to go to trial and live through this another time without any guarantee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: \"There’s a part of me that wanted the truth to be exposed of what happened. The city really is responsible for this death. The police are responsible for this death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas said Monday that his firm spent over $100,000 preparing to bring a lawsuit in the case to trial, including retaining expert witnesses to rebut the district attorney's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every aspect of the district attorney’s basis for their refusal to prosecute the officers here was contradicted by our experts,\" Casillas said. \"Because of the settlement that won’t get much public light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas said he can't disclose the terms of the settlement, but said it contains no conditions and is simply a payment to Perez Lopez's parents, Juan Perez and Margarita Lopez Perez, who live in rural Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From the legal standpoint it’s the end of it, but it’s really not the end of it,\" said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. He, like Rojo, was part of a network of advocates who worked to bring the facts of Perez Lopez's to light. \"We are very determined. We are not going to let the story go away.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11643572/s-f-to-settle-case-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-man-police-killed-with-six-shots-from-behind","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19397","news_545"],"featImg":"news_11643576","label":"news_6944"},"news_11404976":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11404976","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11404976","score":null,"sort":[1492033543000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind","title":"DA: No Criminal Charges for S.F. Officers Who Fatally Shot 20-Year-Old From Behind","publishDate":1492033543,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 7:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is insufficient evidence to criminally charge two plainclothes San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant from behind more than two years ago, the city's district attorney announced on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-awaited\u003c/a> decision marks the end of the criminal investigation into the high-profile police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, one of a few such incidents that thrust the San Francisco Police Department into years of turmoil, culminating with the May 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resignation\u003c/a> of former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds ... but ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr remains a defendant in a federal civil \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/262989139/Complaint-Estate-of-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-et-al-v-Suhr-et-al#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of Perez Lopez's family, which points out an inconsistency in Suhr's initial description that officers fired as Perez Lopez charged one of them with a large knife raised over his head. That account was called into question by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> commissioned by attorneys representing Perez Lopez's family, who live in Guatemala. Its findings, later backed up by the city's official medical examiner's report, show Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconciling the statement of one of the officers involved -- that he fired as Perez Lopez was charging at him -- and the fact that Perez Lopez was shot from behind formed the crux of District Attorney George Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A human being is dead,\" Gascón said on Wednesday, announcing his decision not to charge the officers. \"Amilcar was someone’s son. He was a family member, and he was a member of our community. His loved ones have suffered a loss and my heart goes out to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"Can I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers here did not act in self defense or the defense of others? If we cannot meet this burden, if we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case. I cannot, and I will not file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, though expected, inspired anger from advocates who wanted the case to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If ever there was a case that could be prosecuted, this is it,\" Mission District priest Richard Smith said on Wednesday. \"This was an opportunity for justice where the DA simply failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leading to the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several rumors have circulated about what started the altercation between Perez Lopez and another man, identified by the district attorney's office as Abraham P., who is Abraham Perez. One, which Abraham Perez initially told officers, was that Perez Lopez attacked him after Abraham refused to sell his bicycle. Another involved Abraham Perez stealing Perez Lopez's cellphone, but the phone was in Perez Lopez's pocket when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/PerezLopezShooting2Way20170412.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-e1416954725536.jpg\" Title=\"No Charges for S.F. Officers Who Shot Amilcar Perez Lopez\" program=\"KQED News\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, which is backed up by the account of one witness and video captured by a passing Muni bus, was that Abraham Perez was taunting Perez Lopez and blocking him from entering his home on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez may have circled around Abraham Perez to dash inside his house and grab a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men appear to have been drinking heavily that evening. Perez Lopez's blood alcohol level was .19 -- intoxicated to the point of \"confusion or excitement, emotional instability, and loss of critical judgment and understanding,\" according to a toxicologist who tested Perez Lopez's blood. Abraham Perez told police he'd consumed half a 24-oz. beer before the incident, but he still smelled of alcohol several hours later, according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who were in plainclothes and an unmarked police car, were the first officers to respond to a 911 call about a person with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2015. They were nearby and arrived within minutes, where they encountered two men on opposite sides of a parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli approached a man on the street side of the parked car, who would later be identified as Abraham Perez, and \"announced himself as a police officer and then immediately grabbed Abraham P. by both arms and pinned his arms together in case he was the man with the knife,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. Reboli told Perez they were going to get out of the street and moved toward the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tiffe approached Perez Lopez, who was on the sidewalk side of the parked car.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"nRLBQFFvdnjGZXwTrjtDzXlBgWvbUZwE\"]\u003cbr>\nOfficer Tiffe said he thought Perez Lopez appeared to be in an \"altered state\" and described the look on his face as \"bloodlust crazed,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement. Tiffe said he announced himself as a police officer and asked Perez Lopez to step away from the car. \"Officer Tiffe then pointed to the star on his chest, in case Perez Lopez did not speak English, but he could not tell if Perez Lopez looked at it or understood he was a police officer since he said nothing and simply appeared to 'look through' him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe said he tried to grab Perez Lopez by the left arm and tried to take him to the ground, but Perez Lopez \"suddenly lunged up at him with his right hand,\" according to the summary of Tiffe's statement. He said he shoved Perez Lopez away, and as the two were separating, Perez Lopez swiped at his chest with an object Tiffe then realized was a \"very large knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli had come to Tiffe's aid at this point. After he was shoved away from Tiffe, Perez Lopez turned and started to run toward Reboli, according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. He said he reached for both his gun and pepper spray, but couldn't get the pepper spray out of his pocket. Reboli said he shouted either \"Police, drop the knife\" or \"Drop the knife,\" but after a momentary pause, Perez Lopez continued to approach Reboli with the knife, and the officer began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fired five shots over about two seconds, which were recorded by a nearby gunshot detection device at 9:47 p.m. and the phone of the 911 caller, who was still speaking to police dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below is a 3D animation depicting the theory that Perez Lopez may have turned as the officers were deciding to shoot.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_tIpl6d5I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement says: \"Officer Reboli explained that, once he started to discharge his firearm, Perez Lopez began turning toward the street, then took a step or two before collapsing, face-down, between the two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Tiffe recalled that, as the shots were being fired, Perez Lopez was 'kind of moving in different directions,' was at some point 'facing, at some point he was turning away,' and appeared to fixate on something in the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe fired a single shot as Perez Lopez moved toward the street, the summary said: \"He didn't know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, uniformed officers were arriving on the block of Folsom between 24th and 25th streets as the shots were being fired, according to the district attorney's summary. As one officer began CPR on Perez Lopez, who was shot through the back of the head among other wounds, another officer spoke with Abraham Perez. The officer recorded Perez saying \"that the man shot by the police wanted his bike and tried to kill him with the knife, and ... that the officer saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of the investigation includes statements or information from a total of 15 independent witnesses, including neighbors who said they heard gunshots and shouting, a man who called 911, a woman waiting for the bus and other bystanders. Part of their information corroborates whether officers Tiffe and Reboli shouted commands before firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four witnesses reported hearing some version of 'Put the knife down,' prior to shots being fired; five witnesses heard some version of 'Get on the ground!' prior to shots being fired; and six witnesses heard yelling or shouting prior to shots being fired, but did not hear or remember the words said,\" according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable. ... We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.'\u003ccite>Richard Smith\u003cbr>Mission District Priest\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two additional witnesses are former roommates of Perez Lopez who initially told police they hadn't seen anything, but feared their roommate had been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them spoke to KQED and \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Tecolote\u003c/a> last year on condition of anonymity because he said he fears retaliation from the police. Both men also told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> in 2015 that they feared countering the Police Department's version of the shooting because of their undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was nearly a year after the shooting that the men, supported by a network of activists around the shooting of Perez Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave statements\u003c/a> to district attorney's investigators in the church of a local priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation notes that the men were likely outside at the time of the shooting -- they were noticed by another pair of witnesses just moments before the gunshots. They both said that, from about 90 feet away, they didn't hear the officers give any commands, never saw Abraham Perez, and that it seemed Perez Lopez was running away when the officers started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their sight was obstructed by trees and parked vehicles, and they wouldn't have seen Abraham Perez on the other side of the cars. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to see Perez Lopez at the moment he was shot, though they may have been able to see the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District Attorney's Analysis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's charging decision says that, legally, the officers' account of the shooting indicates that their use of force was justified in self-defense or defense of others. The charging decision then \"turns on whether the officers' statements are consistent with the evidence,\" according to the summary of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis further narrows to \"\u003cem>the moments just before the shots were fired\u003c/em> where it was not immediately clear whether the officers' accounts could be squared with other evidence,\" according to the summary, which notes two crucial inconsistencies. \"These two areas were subject to intense analysis, including close examination by a use of force expert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first apparent inconsistency involves Reboli's statement that he started to fire as Perez Lopez was coming toward him. \"This statement was examined in light of the findings of the Medical Examiner that five of the six shots that struck Perez Lopez struck him in the back, and with the statement of Abraham P., who said that Perez Lopez had his back to the officers when he was shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use-of-force expert Charles Key examined the case and noted that \"a subject can turn one hundred eighty degrees more quickly than the fact that he/she has turned can be comprehended; thus, the shooter who has decided to fire may not recognize that the person has turned and, perhaps, no longer presents a threat and be able to stop shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key also accounts for what he calls \"the mechanics of shooting,\" which changes a person's focus from what their target may be doing to \"shooting the weapon effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key's analysis is further quoted in the district attorney's report on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other words, Reboli may have accurately recalled that Perez Lopez was facing him when he made the decision to shoot and started the process of taking the first shot, but based on action versus reaction time, Perez Lopez would have been able to turn 90 to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Further, once Reboli saw Perez Lopez coming toward him with the knife and decided to shoot, his focus would have turned to the mechanics of shooting accurately and he may have at that point lost sight of the exact position of Perez Lopez as he started firing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds, which direction Perez Lopez was facing and to whom he posed a threat when the officers made a decision to shoot,\" Gascón said. \"But ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation also intensely analyzed whether Perez Lopez dropped the knife he was holding before police started firing, something Perez Lopez's roommates believed they heard moments before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that, due to the knife's position in the street after the shooting, it's likely that Perez Lopez was still holding it when he was shot. But, according to the district attorney's report, even if he wasn't:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence is also consistent with the officers' \u003cem>belief\u003c/em> that Perez Lopez was still in possession of the knife when they discharged their weapons, even if the evidence supported a finding that the knife had in fact dropped a moment before the shots were fired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Distirct priest Richard Smith and other advocates around the case are now looking forward to a civil trial, which could still be a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable,\" Smith said. \"We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the district attorney's summary of investigation and legal analysis below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3553854-FOLSOM-STREET-SUMMARY-and-ANALYSIS\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The long-awaited charging decision ends the criminal investigation into the 2-year-old case, and will allow a federal civil lawsuit to move forward.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1618879161,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":2572},"headData":{"title":"DA: No Criminal Charges for S.F. Officers Who Fatally Shot 20-Year-Old From Behind | KQED","description":"The long-awaited charging decision ends the criminal investigation into the 2-year-old case, and will allow a federal civil lawsuit to move forward.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"DA: No Criminal Charges for S.F. Officers Who Fatally Shot 20-Year-Old From Behind","datePublished":"2017-04-12T21:45:43.000Z","dateModified":"2021-04-20T00:39:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11404976 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11404976","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind/","disqusTitle":"DA: No Criminal Charges for S.F. Officers Who Fatally Shot 20-Year-Old From Behind","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/news/11404976/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 7:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is insufficient evidence to criminally charge two plainclothes San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant from behind more than two years ago, the city's district attorney announced on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-awaited\u003c/a> decision marks the end of the criminal investigation into the high-profile police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, one of a few such incidents that thrust the San Francisco Police Department into years of turmoil, culminating with the May 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resignation\u003c/a> of former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds ... but ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr remains a defendant in a federal civil \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/262989139/Complaint-Estate-of-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-et-al-v-Suhr-et-al#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of Perez Lopez's family, which points out an inconsistency in Suhr's initial description that officers fired as Perez Lopez charged one of them with a large knife raised over his head. That account was called into question by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> commissioned by attorneys representing Perez Lopez's family, who live in Guatemala. Its findings, later backed up by the city's official medical examiner's report, show Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconciling the statement of one of the officers involved -- that he fired as Perez Lopez was charging at him -- and the fact that Perez Lopez was shot from behind formed the crux of District Attorney George Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A human being is dead,\" Gascón said on Wednesday, announcing his decision not to charge the officers. \"Amilcar was someone’s son. He was a family member, and he was a member of our community. His loved ones have suffered a loss and my heart goes out to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"Can I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers here did not act in self defense or the defense of others? If we cannot meet this burden, if we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case. I cannot, and I will not file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, though expected, inspired anger from advocates who wanted the case to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If ever there was a case that could be prosecuted, this is it,\" Mission District priest Richard Smith said on Wednesday. \"This was an opportunity for justice where the DA simply failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leading to the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several rumors have circulated about what started the altercation between Perez Lopez and another man, identified by the district attorney's office as Abraham P., who is Abraham Perez. One, which Abraham Perez initially told officers, was that Perez Lopez attacked him after Abraham refused to sell his bicycle. Another involved Abraham Perez stealing Perez Lopez's cellphone, but the phone was in Perez Lopez's pocket when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/PerezLopezShooting2Way20170412.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-e1416954725536.jpg","title":"No Charges for S.F. Officers Who Shot Amilcar Perez Lopez","program":"KQED News","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, which is backed up by the account of one witness and video captured by a passing Muni bus, was that Abraham Perez was taunting Perez Lopez and blocking him from entering his home on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez may have circled around Abraham Perez to dash inside his house and grab a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men appear to have been drinking heavily that evening. Perez Lopez's blood alcohol level was .19 -- intoxicated to the point of \"confusion or excitement, emotional instability, and loss of critical judgment and understanding,\" according to a toxicologist who tested Perez Lopez's blood. Abraham Perez told police he'd consumed half a 24-oz. beer before the incident, but he still smelled of alcohol several hours later, according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who were in plainclothes and an unmarked police car, were the first officers to respond to a 911 call about a person with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2015. They were nearby and arrived within minutes, where they encountered two men on opposite sides of a parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli approached a man on the street side of the parked car, who would later be identified as Abraham Perez, and \"announced himself as a police officer and then immediately grabbed Abraham P. by both arms and pinned his arms together in case he was the man with the knife,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. Reboli told Perez they were going to get out of the street and moved toward the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tiffe approached Perez Lopez, who was on the sidewalk side of the parked car.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nOfficer Tiffe said he thought Perez Lopez appeared to be in an \"altered state\" and described the look on his face as \"bloodlust crazed,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement. Tiffe said he announced himself as a police officer and asked Perez Lopez to step away from the car. \"Officer Tiffe then pointed to the star on his chest, in case Perez Lopez did not speak English, but he could not tell if Perez Lopez looked at it or understood he was a police officer since he said nothing and simply appeared to 'look through' him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe said he tried to grab Perez Lopez by the left arm and tried to take him to the ground, but Perez Lopez \"suddenly lunged up at him with his right hand,\" according to the summary of Tiffe's statement. He said he shoved Perez Lopez away, and as the two were separating, Perez Lopez swiped at his chest with an object Tiffe then realized was a \"very large knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli had come to Tiffe's aid at this point. After he was shoved away from Tiffe, Perez Lopez turned and started to run toward Reboli, according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. He said he reached for both his gun and pepper spray, but couldn't get the pepper spray out of his pocket. Reboli said he shouted either \"Police, drop the knife\" or \"Drop the knife,\" but after a momentary pause, Perez Lopez continued to approach Reboli with the knife, and the officer began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fired five shots over about two seconds, which were recorded by a nearby gunshot detection device at 9:47 p.m. and the phone of the 911 caller, who was still speaking to police dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below is a 3D animation depicting the theory that Perez Lopez may have turned as the officers were deciding to shoot.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_tIpl6d5I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_tIpl6d5I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement says: \"Officer Reboli explained that, once he started to discharge his firearm, Perez Lopez began turning toward the street, then took a step or two before collapsing, face-down, between the two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Tiffe recalled that, as the shots were being fired, Perez Lopez was 'kind of moving in different directions,' was at some point 'facing, at some point he was turning away,' and appeared to fixate on something in the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe fired a single shot as Perez Lopez moved toward the street, the summary said: \"He didn't know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, uniformed officers were arriving on the block of Folsom between 24th and 25th streets as the shots were being fired, according to the district attorney's summary. As one officer began CPR on Perez Lopez, who was shot through the back of the head among other wounds, another officer spoke with Abraham Perez. The officer recorded Perez saying \"that the man shot by the police wanted his bike and tried to kill him with the knife, and ... that the officer saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of the investigation includes statements or information from a total of 15 independent witnesses, including neighbors who said they heard gunshots and shouting, a man who called 911, a woman waiting for the bus and other bystanders. Part of their information corroborates whether officers Tiffe and Reboli shouted commands before firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four witnesses reported hearing some version of 'Put the knife down,' prior to shots being fired; five witnesses heard some version of 'Get on the ground!' prior to shots being fired; and six witnesses heard yelling or shouting prior to shots being fired, but did not hear or remember the words said,\" according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable. ... We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.'\u003ccite>Richard Smith\u003cbr>Mission District Priest\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two additional witnesses are former roommates of Perez Lopez who initially told police they hadn't seen anything, but feared their roommate had been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them spoke to KQED and \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Tecolote\u003c/a> last year on condition of anonymity because he said he fears retaliation from the police. Both men also told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> in 2015 that they feared countering the Police Department's version of the shooting because of their undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was nearly a year after the shooting that the men, supported by a network of activists around the shooting of Perez Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave statements\u003c/a> to district attorney's investigators in the church of a local priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation notes that the men were likely outside at the time of the shooting -- they were noticed by another pair of witnesses just moments before the gunshots. They both said that, from about 90 feet away, they didn't hear the officers give any commands, never saw Abraham Perez, and that it seemed Perez Lopez was running away when the officers started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their sight was obstructed by trees and parked vehicles, and they wouldn't have seen Abraham Perez on the other side of the cars. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to see Perez Lopez at the moment he was shot, though they may have been able to see the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District Attorney's Analysis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's charging decision says that, legally, the officers' account of the shooting indicates that their use of force was justified in self-defense or defense of others. The charging decision then \"turns on whether the officers' statements are consistent with the evidence,\" according to the summary of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis further narrows to \"\u003cem>the moments just before the shots were fired\u003c/em> where it was not immediately clear whether the officers' accounts could be squared with other evidence,\" according to the summary, which notes two crucial inconsistencies. \"These two areas were subject to intense analysis, including close examination by a use of force expert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first apparent inconsistency involves Reboli's statement that he started to fire as Perez Lopez was coming toward him. \"This statement was examined in light of the findings of the Medical Examiner that five of the six shots that struck Perez Lopez struck him in the back, and with the statement of Abraham P., who said that Perez Lopez had his back to the officers when he was shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use-of-force expert Charles Key examined the case and noted that \"a subject can turn one hundred eighty degrees more quickly than the fact that he/she has turned can be comprehended; thus, the shooter who has decided to fire may not recognize that the person has turned and, perhaps, no longer presents a threat and be able to stop shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key also accounts for what he calls \"the mechanics of shooting,\" which changes a person's focus from what their target may be doing to \"shooting the weapon effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key's analysis is further quoted in the district attorney's report on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other words, Reboli may have accurately recalled that Perez Lopez was facing him when he made the decision to shoot and started the process of taking the first shot, but based on action versus reaction time, Perez Lopez would have been able to turn 90 to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Further, once Reboli saw Perez Lopez coming toward him with the knife and decided to shoot, his focus would have turned to the mechanics of shooting accurately and he may have at that point lost sight of the exact position of Perez Lopez as he started firing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds, which direction Perez Lopez was facing and to whom he posed a threat when the officers made a decision to shoot,\" Gascón said. \"But ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation also intensely analyzed whether Perez Lopez dropped the knife he was holding before police started firing, something Perez Lopez's roommates believed they heard moments before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that, due to the knife's position in the street after the shooting, it's likely that Perez Lopez was still holding it when he was shot. But, according to the district attorney's report, even if he wasn't:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence is also consistent with the officers' \u003cem>belief\u003c/em> that Perez Lopez was still in possession of the knife when they discharged their weapons, even if the evidence supported a finding that the knife had in fact dropped a moment before the shots were fired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Distirct priest Richard Smith and other advocates around the case are now looking forward to a civil trial, which could still be a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable,\" Smith said. \"We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the district attorney's summary of investigation and legal analysis below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"documentcloud","attributes":{"named":{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3553854-FOLSOM-STREET-SUMMARY-and-ANALYSIS","notes":"true","text":"true","search":"true","sidebar":"true","pdf":"true","responsive":"true","page":"1","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11404976/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19397","news_19542","news_546","news_1300","news_5270","news_559","news_545"],"featImg":"news_11405132","label":"news_6944"},"news_11336504":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11336504","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11336504","score":null,"sort":[1488247254000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting","title":"Advocates Press for Charging Decision Two Years Since Fatal S.F. Police Shooting","publishDate":1488247254,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Advocates seeking justice in the case of Amilcar Perez Lopez gathered \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> to mark two years since the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was shot to death from behind by two San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was not captured on video, unlike that of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> about nine months later. The Woods shooting propelled the San Francisco Police Department into an era of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">chaos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">reform\u003c/a>, but the Perez Lopez case hardly registered beyond the tight-knit group that formed around the young carpenter's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all present in the pouring rain at the scene of the shooting on Sunday for what the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest, called \"heart work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-960x596.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Amilcar's story has touched us all very deeply and has given us an energy that I suspect many of us didn't even know we had to keep fighting and to keep saying our message, even when it seems like nobody's listening,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez's story began in rural Guatemala. He left his family there to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed he encountered immigration officials along the Southern California border in 2013 and was released \"pending the outcome of immigration removal proceedings.\" He met a network of Guatemalan immigrants who work construction in San Francisco sometime that same year, according to interviews with people who knew him, and worked carpentry and other odd jobs until his death on Feb. 26, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the details of the shooting remain unclear. Perez Lopez had some sort of altercation with a man on a bicycle outside his apartment on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife from inside his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how the fight ended, but the bicyclist wasn't stabbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was walking back toward his home when SFPD officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli approached him from behind. The officers were in plainclothes, and one of them tried to grab Perez Lopez. He wriggled free.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"6H4UcSSQAzGzioCUXYMqdmxLrG50MaOl\"]\u003cbr>\nFormer San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr originally said that Perez Lopez turned and charged at one of the officers with a knife held above his head, and both officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> showed all six gunshots came from behind Perez Lopez, a new theory emerged: Perez Lopez was running toward the bicyclist, and the officers fired to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe and Reboli have remained on duty in the city's Mission District, while a criminal investigation into the shooting remains open at the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez group reconvened on the steps of San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Monday, where they were joined by Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters proceeded to lie down on the staircase, draping themselves in sheets spattered with fake blood and chalking outlines around their limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations criticizing the role of prosecutors in officer-involved shooting investigations have become a weekly ritual at the Hall of Justice, where the San Francisco District Attorney's Office is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said last week, adding that a charging decision in the Perez Lopez case would come in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez-Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the creation of a new unit in the district attorney's office -- called the Independent Investigations Bureau -- would speed officer-involved shooting investigations. Protocol around prosecutors taking a lead role in police shooting investigations is currently the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of negotiations\u003c/a> with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the interim, it's really important that we get these cases done correctly and not just expediently,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón has indicated in the past that prosecutions in this and other high-profile police shooting cases are unlikely, due to legal standards set decades ago by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the long criminal investigation has also indefinitely stalled a federal lawsuit on behalf of Perez Lopez’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo brought a message from Perez Lopez's father at the vigil on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the money he sent, we managed to get a corn sheller, electricity, potable water, and he will never see these things,\" she said, translating the message from Guatemala. \"He was earning a living and they took his life. The officer is corrupt. He took the life of my son. The death of my son cannot go unpunished.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,' a district attorney's spokesman said.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1488332759,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":867},"headData":{"title":"Advocates Press for Charging Decision Two Years Since Fatal S.F. Police Shooting | KQED","description":"'We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,' a district attorney's spokesman said.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Advocates Press for Charging Decision Two Years Since Fatal S.F. Police Shooting","datePublished":"2017-02-28T02:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2017-03-01T01:45:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11336504 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11336504","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/","disqusTitle":"Advocates Press for Charging Decision Two Years Since Fatal S.F. Police Shooting","path":"/news/11336504/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Advocates seeking justice in the case of Amilcar Perez Lopez gathered \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> to mark two years since the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was shot to death from behind by two San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was not captured on video, unlike that of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> about nine months later. The Woods shooting propelled the San Francisco Police Department into an era of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">chaos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">reform\u003c/a>, but the Perez Lopez case hardly registered beyond the tight-knit group that formed around the young carpenter's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all present in the pouring rain at the scene of the shooting on Sunday for what the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest, called \"heart work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-960x596.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Amilcar's story has touched us all very deeply and has given us an energy that I suspect many of us didn't even know we had to keep fighting and to keep saying our message, even when it seems like nobody's listening,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez's story began in rural Guatemala. He left his family there to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed he encountered immigration officials along the Southern California border in 2013 and was released \"pending the outcome of immigration removal proceedings.\" He met a network of Guatemalan immigrants who work construction in San Francisco sometime that same year, according to interviews with people who knew him, and worked carpentry and other odd jobs until his death on Feb. 26, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the details of the shooting remain unclear. Perez Lopez had some sort of altercation with a man on a bicycle outside his apartment on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife from inside his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how the fight ended, but the bicyclist wasn't stabbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was walking back toward his home when SFPD officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli approached him from behind. The officers were in plainclothes, and one of them tried to grab Perez Lopez. He wriggled free.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nFormer San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr originally said that Perez Lopez turned and charged at one of the officers with a knife held above his head, and both officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> showed all six gunshots came from behind Perez Lopez, a new theory emerged: Perez Lopez was running toward the bicyclist, and the officers fired to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe and Reboli have remained on duty in the city's Mission District, while a criminal investigation into the shooting remains open at the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez group reconvened on the steps of San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Monday, where they were joined by Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters proceeded to lie down on the staircase, draping themselves in sheets spattered with fake blood and chalking outlines around their limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations criticizing the role of prosecutors in officer-involved shooting investigations have become a weekly ritual at the Hall of Justice, where the San Francisco District Attorney's Office is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said last week, adding that a charging decision in the Perez Lopez case would come in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez-Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the creation of a new unit in the district attorney's office -- called the Independent Investigations Bureau -- would speed officer-involved shooting investigations. Protocol around prosecutors taking a lead role in police shooting investigations is currently the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of negotiations\u003c/a> with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the interim, it's really important that we get these cases done correctly and not just expediently,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón has indicated in the past that prosecutions in this and other high-profile police shooting cases are unlikely, due to legal standards set decades ago by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the long criminal investigation has also indefinitely stalled a federal lawsuit on behalf of Perez Lopez’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo brought a message from Perez Lopez's father at the vigil on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the money he sent, we managed to get a corn sheller, electricity, potable water, and he will never see these things,\" she said, translating the message from Guatemala. \"He was earning a living and they took his life. The officer is corrupt. He took the life of my son. The death of my son cannot go unpunished.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11336504/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting","authors":["3206","11328"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19397","news_546","news_545"],"featImg":"news_11336855","label":"news_6944"},"news_10947016":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10947016","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10947016","score":null,"sort":[1462487571000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar","title":"Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar","publishDate":1462487571,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del Editor: Este reportaje fue elaborado en colaboración con \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/es/especiales/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-llego-a-hablar/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. Click \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to read in English.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En los 14 meses desde que dos policías encubiertos acribillaron a muerte a un carpintero inmigrante guatemalteco de 20 años en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, el uso de la fuerza policial local ha comenzado a cambiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nAntigua vecina de Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>La decisión del fiscal de distrito, en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales en contra de los dos oficiales de policía, quienes acribillaron a Amilcar Perez Lopez seis veces por la espalda, se espera en cualquier día. Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas es el editor en jefe de El Tecolote, un periódico comunitario del Distrito de la Misión. Alex Emslie y Nicole Reinert son reporteros para KQED News. Traducción Mabel Jiménez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Una comunidad trabajó tras bambalinas para asegurar que los demandantes tuvieran las declaraciones de dos testigos oculares del tiroteo fatal de Amilcar Perez Lopez antes de que el fiscal de distrito tome una decisión en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales. La decisión se espera cualquier día. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1462491565,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":64,"wordCount":3139},"headData":{"title":"Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar | KQED","description":"Una comunidad trabajó tras bambalinas para asegurar que los demandantes tuvieran las declaraciones de dos testigos oculares del tiroteo fatal de Amilcar Perez Lopez antes de que el fiscal de distrito tome una decisión en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales. La decisión se espera cualquier día. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar","datePublished":"2016-05-05T22:32:51.000Z","dateModified":"2016-05-05T23:39:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10947016 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10947016","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar/","disqusTitle":"Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/aemslie\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Terrazas\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/nreinert\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Reinert\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10947016/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del Editor: Este reportaje fue elaborado en colaboración con \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/es/especiales/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-llego-a-hablar/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. Click \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to read in English.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En los 14 meses desde que dos policías encubiertos acribillaron a muerte a un carpintero inmigrante guatemalteco de 20 años en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, el uso de la fuerza policial local ha comenzado a cambiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nAntigua vecina de Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>La decisión del fiscal de distrito, en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales en contra de los dos oficiales de policía, quienes acribillaron a Amilcar Perez Lopez seis veces por la espalda, se espera en cualquier día. Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas es el editor en jefe de El Tecolote, un periódico comunitario del Distrito de la Misión. Alex Emslie y Nicole Reinert son reporteros para KQED News. Traducción Mabel Jiménez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10947016/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar","authors":["byline_news_10947016"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_19397","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10947098","label":"news_6944"},"news_10942092":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10942092","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10942092","score":null,"sort":[1462366849000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward","title":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward","publishDate":1462366849,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This report was produced in collaboration with Mission District neighborhood newspaper \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar\" target=\"_blank\">Haga clic aquí\u003c/a> para leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 14 months since two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant carpenter in San Francisco’s Mission District, the local landscape of police use of force has begun to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation.'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nFormer neighbor of Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s decision is expected any day on whether to file criminal charges against two police officers who shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times from behind. That decision will land in a city that's been the scene of a series of controversial police shootings of black and Latino men, and it will either launch a criminal prosecution or allow a federal civil lawsuit to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Perez Lopez’s name was rarely mentioned at the protests, press conferences and meetings that chronicled the Police Department’s controversies and led to halting reforms and growing public anger. The city was more focused on two other fatal police shootings -- of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> on Bernal Heights in 2014, and the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many months after he [Perez Lopez] was killed, it wasn’t really addressed,” said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. “He’s an immigrant. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t have a history of being a classmate of other people in the neighborhood. In some ways, it can be harder to connect with his story, because he’s an outsider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the Mario Woods shooting, caught on cellphone video from multiple angles, that propelled the Police Department into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rewriting of the rules\u003c/a> governing all use of force, from control holds to firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> the officers involved in the Nieto shooting after a highly publicized federal civil rights trial. With few \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notable\u003c/a> exceptions, the investigation of Perez Lopez’s death was a whisper amid the roar of those calling for police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, a small network of advocates, attorneys, investigators and neighbors have worked behind the scenes to facilitate a complex investigation involving witnesses fearful of retaliation from police and immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation,” said Florencia Rojo, a former neighbor of Perez Lopez, who discovered the homicide scene when she tried to return home on Feb. 26, 2015, the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her house, just one door south from where Perez Lopez lived, was blocked off by police, so she went around the corner and tried to climb into her neighbor’s backyard.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"HlQcHLDyIa5rHET80Z2zJG6X0lXCVHrw\"]\u003cbr>\nThat’s where she met one of the dead man’s roommates, whose account of the shooting differs significantly from the multiple versions offered by Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting four days after the shooting, Suhr said two officers responding to a 911 call about a man with a knife came upon Perez Lopez and another man he was allegedly chasing on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez charged the officers from 5 feet away with the knife \"raised overhead,\" Suhr said. Also at that meeting, Mission Station Capt. Daniel Perea said the other man, later identified as Abraham Perez, told him the officers had saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy showed\u003c/a> Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr qualified his previous statements. During an appearance on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em> last July\u003c/a>, the chief said Perez Lopez “came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired and he turned away, which would explain not all of the rounds going in the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the scene that night, the discussion was of Amilcar Lopez moving forward,” Suhr clarified in February. “Later on, in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with a knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who shot Perez Lopez that night, have long since returned to duty. Perea said in a recent interview that both officers are still assigned to Mission Station. He declined to say whether Tiffe and Reboli had returned to the plainclothes unit, though, citing concerns for the safety of his officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the past year Mission Station's plainclothes unit added a supervisor, and it now consists of two supervising sergeants and 10 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFPD's Attempted Interviews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district attorney’s investigators conducting their own investigation pursued a lead of the two roommates who were rumored to have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what happened,” one of the roommates said in a recent interview, speaking in Spanish and on condition of anonymity due to what he says is his fear of retaliation from police. “I saw things happen really clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, for the same reason, that he and the other man were afraid to talk to Police Department investigators, and they made a pact not to do so without an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That frustrated the Police Department’s homicide investigation, according to declarations filed by three SFPD officers in a federal wrongful death civil case brought by Perez Lopez’s family in Guatemala. The officers wrote that the roommates changed their stories and evaded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Anthony Ravano declared that he spoke with two roommates the night of the shooting, and that they stated they had not seen the shooting, but only heard gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lt. Daniel Dedet and Ravano tried to follow up, one of the men said an attorney told them to say nothing, and the other reached by phone evaded questions, hung up and didn’t return a phone message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In summary, both roommates have refused to cooperate with the SFPD investigation after speaking with civil attorneys for Mr Perez Lopez’ family,” Ravano wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Abraham Perez were unsuccessful. Civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's family say he told them in an interview that Perez Lopez was simply running from the plainclothes officers when they started shooting, and he likely didn't know the men were police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DA Pursues Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of last year, District Attorney George Gascón started pushing for interviews with the roommates, according to Florencia Rojo and the Rev. Richard Smith. The district attorney’s office declined to comment for this report, citing an open investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said Gascón called him last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘This has the markings of a bad shooting and I absolutely have to get the eyewitnesses in here and get their testimony,’ ” Smith said, adding that Gascón said he could arrest the witnesses, but he’d prefer them to speak voluntarily. “He said ‘I have to have these eyewitnesses in order to make a case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945192\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of attorneys for Amilcar Perez Lopez's family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo said she got a similar phone call from Gascón. She, Smith and others worked to help the men overcome fears of immigration enforcement and the trauma of seeing their friend shot dead by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of fear and a lot of hesitation,” Rojo said. “When your trust in the police and law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you and keep you safe is broken, speaking out is very scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocates Scramble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network that included Smith and Rojo worked to secure an immigration attorney for the men, who are both living in the U.S. illegally. The attorney, Laura Sanchez, said she is in the early stages of pursuing a special visa for witnesses or victims of violent crime. Their visa petition, however, involves a crime unrelated to the Perez Lopez shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think finding representation made them feel a lot more comfortable and secure talking openly about what they had seen,” Sanchez said. Generally speaking, she said people in the U.S. unlawfully “are afraid to come forward because they fear some authority will let immigration know of their whereabouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress weighed heavily on the roommate, who spoke recently for this report. He said he's often had trouble sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt the need to talk because I felt like I was dying inside,\" he said in Spanish. \"I was feeling terrible because I felt like justice wasn't being done. I'm not well psychologically. It's hard when you see somebody who you love get killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 7, Rojo accompanied the man to a dinner meeting with Elvira and Refugio Nieto, the parents of Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10945196 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a federal civil rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nietos explained the process their son's case had followed, and they encouraged the roommate to come forward, they said in an interview on April 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I told him not to worry, not to worry and not to be afraid,\" Elvira Nieto said in Spanish. \"You could see he was in despair and by his way of speaking, you could tell he was very nervous. But he talked about how they shot him [Perez Lopez] in the back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nietos said they told Perez Lopez's roommate that if more witnesses had come forward in their son's case, and earlier, perhaps they would have seen a different result. Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> who shot Alejandro Nieto of criminal wrongdoing in early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that four officers who fired a combined 59 gunshots at Nieto reasonably believed the object he carried and allegedly pointed at them was a firearm. The officers discovered after fatally shooting Nieto that he had a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they treat this case the same way they treated Alejandro's, the same thing will happen,\" Refugio Nieto said. He said his son's case shows an unfair bias in favor of police officers in both the criminal and civil systems. \"Alejandro, he is gone, but now we’re a symbol of the community, to help others and understand the upcoming process. Amilcar’s case is the one that is next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statements at the Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week later, the advocates brokered a meeting between Perez Lopez's former roommates and DA's investigators in Richard Smith's church. Florencia Rojo sat in on the four-hour interview with the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them recounted the night Perez Lopez was killed in an interview April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he ran outside after another roommate told him Perez Lopez had come into the flat and grabbed a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to stop any kind of trouble Amilcar was going to get himself in,\" he said. \"We saw him walking toward us calmly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former roommate was about two doors north of Perez Lopez, standing at the edge of his house's entry and the sidewalk, when he saw two larger figures emerge from the darkness behind his friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of them tried to grab him from behind, without saying anything,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez Lopez squirmed free and ran toward the street, between two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said 'Drop the weapon,' \" then both officers fired almost immediately,\" the man said. \"I don’t know if he even got a chance to drop it, but when the first shot was fired, he dropped the knife. I heard the shot, and when I saw that, I felt my legs go weak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was running into an empty street, the roommate said, neither a threat to officers nor anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t even talk to him,\" he said. \"They just shot him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roommates' statements prompted DA's investigators to descend back onto Folsom Street in late December, according to Smith and others in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens more people. Since then, the small community of former friends, family and their advocates have been awaiting Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has pledged to effectively end uses of deadly force against people with weapons other than a firearm, and the department continues to expand de-escalation and anti-bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the department makes those moves, it's confronted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">fresh controversies\u003c/a>. On April 7, two officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">shot and killed\u003c/a> Luis Gongora, another Spanish-speaking man allegedly wielding a knife, in the Mission District. As in the Amilar Perez Lopez case, some witnesses have contradicted the police account of the incident, which the department says occurred after Gongora lunged at officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas is editor-in-chief of Mission District neighborhood newspaper El Tecolote. Alex Emslie and Nicole Reinert are reporters for KQED News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A community worked behind the scenes to ensure prosecutors had the statements of two witnesses to the fatal police shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez before the district attorney's decision on whether to file criminal charges, which is expected any day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1462491409,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":63,"wordCount":2415},"headData":{"title":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward | KQED","description":"A community worked behind the scenes to ensure prosecutors had the statements of two witnesses to the fatal police shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez before the district attorney's decision on whether to file criminal charges, which is expected any day.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward","datePublished":"2016-05-04T13:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2016-05-05T23:36:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10942092 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10942092","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/","disqusTitle":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/aemslie\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Terrazas\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/nreinert\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Reinert\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10942092/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This report was produced in collaboration with Mission District neighborhood newspaper \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar\" target=\"_blank\">Haga clic aquí\u003c/a> para leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 14 months since two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant carpenter in San Francisco’s Mission District, the local landscape of police use of force has begun to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation.'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nFormer neighbor of Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s decision is expected any day on whether to file criminal charges against two police officers who shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times from behind. That decision will land in a city that's been the scene of a series of controversial police shootings of black and Latino men, and it will either launch a criminal prosecution or allow a federal civil lawsuit to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Perez Lopez’s name was rarely mentioned at the protests, press conferences and meetings that chronicled the Police Department’s controversies and led to halting reforms and growing public anger. The city was more focused on two other fatal police shootings -- of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> on Bernal Heights in 2014, and the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many months after he [Perez Lopez] was killed, it wasn’t really addressed,” said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. “He’s an immigrant. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t have a history of being a classmate of other people in the neighborhood. In some ways, it can be harder to connect with his story, because he’s an outsider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the Mario Woods shooting, caught on cellphone video from multiple angles, that propelled the Police Department into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rewriting of the rules\u003c/a> governing all use of force, from control holds to firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> the officers involved in the Nieto shooting after a highly publicized federal civil rights trial. With few \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notable\u003c/a> exceptions, the investigation of Perez Lopez’s death was a whisper amid the roar of those calling for police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, a small network of advocates, attorneys, investigators and neighbors have worked behind the scenes to facilitate a complex investigation involving witnesses fearful of retaliation from police and immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation,” said Florencia Rojo, a former neighbor of Perez Lopez, who discovered the homicide scene when she tried to return home on Feb. 26, 2015, the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her house, just one door south from where Perez Lopez lived, was blocked off by police, so she went around the corner and tried to climb into her neighbor’s backyard.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThat’s where she met one of the dead man’s roommates, whose account of the shooting differs significantly from the multiple versions offered by Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting four days after the shooting, Suhr said two officers responding to a 911 call about a man with a knife came upon Perez Lopez and another man he was allegedly chasing on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez charged the officers from 5 feet away with the knife \"raised overhead,\" Suhr said. Also at that meeting, Mission Station Capt. Daniel Perea said the other man, later identified as Abraham Perez, told him the officers had saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy showed\u003c/a> Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr qualified his previous statements. During an appearance on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em> last July\u003c/a>, the chief said Perez Lopez “came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired and he turned away, which would explain not all of the rounds going in the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the scene that night, the discussion was of Amilcar Lopez moving forward,” Suhr clarified in February. “Later on, in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with a knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who shot Perez Lopez that night, have long since returned to duty. Perea said in a recent interview that both officers are still assigned to Mission Station. He declined to say whether Tiffe and Reboli had returned to the plainclothes unit, though, citing concerns for the safety of his officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the past year Mission Station's plainclothes unit added a supervisor, and it now consists of two supervising sergeants and 10 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFPD's Attempted Interviews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district attorney’s investigators conducting their own investigation pursued a lead of the two roommates who were rumored to have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what happened,” one of the roommates said in a recent interview, speaking in Spanish and on condition of anonymity due to what he says is his fear of retaliation from police. “I saw things happen really clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, for the same reason, that he and the other man were afraid to talk to Police Department investigators, and they made a pact not to do so without an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That frustrated the Police Department’s homicide investigation, according to declarations filed by three SFPD officers in a federal wrongful death civil case brought by Perez Lopez’s family in Guatemala. The officers wrote that the roommates changed their stories and evaded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Anthony Ravano declared that he spoke with two roommates the night of the shooting, and that they stated they had not seen the shooting, but only heard gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lt. Daniel Dedet and Ravano tried to follow up, one of the men said an attorney told them to say nothing, and the other reached by phone evaded questions, hung up and didn’t return a phone message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In summary, both roommates have refused to cooperate with the SFPD investigation after speaking with civil attorneys for Mr Perez Lopez’ family,” Ravano wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Abraham Perez were unsuccessful. Civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's family say he told them in an interview that Perez Lopez was simply running from the plainclothes officers when they started shooting, and he likely didn't know the men were police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DA Pursues Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of last year, District Attorney George Gascón started pushing for interviews with the roommates, according to Florencia Rojo and the Rev. Richard Smith. The district attorney’s office declined to comment for this report, citing an open investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said Gascón called him last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘This has the markings of a bad shooting and I absolutely have to get the eyewitnesses in here and get their testimony,’ ” Smith said, adding that Gascón said he could arrest the witnesses, but he’d prefer them to speak voluntarily. “He said ‘I have to have these eyewitnesses in order to make a case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945192\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of attorneys for Amilcar Perez Lopez's family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo said she got a similar phone call from Gascón. She, Smith and others worked to help the men overcome fears of immigration enforcement and the trauma of seeing their friend shot dead by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of fear and a lot of hesitation,” Rojo said. “When your trust in the police and law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you and keep you safe is broken, speaking out is very scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocates Scramble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network that included Smith and Rojo worked to secure an immigration attorney for the men, who are both living in the U.S. illegally. The attorney, Laura Sanchez, said she is in the early stages of pursuing a special visa for witnesses or victims of violent crime. Their visa petition, however, involves a crime unrelated to the Perez Lopez shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think finding representation made them feel a lot more comfortable and secure talking openly about what they had seen,” Sanchez said. Generally speaking, she said people in the U.S. unlawfully “are afraid to come forward because they fear some authority will let immigration know of their whereabouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress weighed heavily on the roommate, who spoke recently for this report. He said he's often had trouble sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt the need to talk because I felt like I was dying inside,\" he said in Spanish. \"I was feeling terrible because I felt like justice wasn't being done. I'm not well psychologically. It's hard when you see somebody who you love get killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 7, Rojo accompanied the man to a dinner meeting with Elvira and Refugio Nieto, the parents of Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10945196 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a federal civil rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nietos explained the process their son's case had followed, and they encouraged the roommate to come forward, they said in an interview on April 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I told him not to worry, not to worry and not to be afraid,\" Elvira Nieto said in Spanish. \"You could see he was in despair and by his way of speaking, you could tell he was very nervous. But he talked about how they shot him [Perez Lopez] in the back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nietos said they told Perez Lopez's roommate that if more witnesses had come forward in their son's case, and earlier, perhaps they would have seen a different result. Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> who shot Alejandro Nieto of criminal wrongdoing in early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that four officers who fired a combined 59 gunshots at Nieto reasonably believed the object he carried and allegedly pointed at them was a firearm. The officers discovered after fatally shooting Nieto that he had a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they treat this case the same way they treated Alejandro's, the same thing will happen,\" Refugio Nieto said. He said his son's case shows an unfair bias in favor of police officers in both the criminal and civil systems. \"Alejandro, he is gone, but now we’re a symbol of the community, to help others and understand the upcoming process. Amilcar’s case is the one that is next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statements at the Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week later, the advocates brokered a meeting between Perez Lopez's former roommates and DA's investigators in Richard Smith's church. Florencia Rojo sat in on the four-hour interview with the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them recounted the night Perez Lopez was killed in an interview April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he ran outside after another roommate told him Perez Lopez had come into the flat and grabbed a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to stop any kind of trouble Amilcar was going to get himself in,\" he said. \"We saw him walking toward us calmly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former roommate was about two doors north of Perez Lopez, standing at the edge of his house's entry and the sidewalk, when he saw two larger figures emerge from the darkness behind his friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of them tried to grab him from behind, without saying anything,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez Lopez squirmed free and ran toward the street, between two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said 'Drop the weapon,' \" then both officers fired almost immediately,\" the man said. \"I don’t know if he even got a chance to drop it, but when the first shot was fired, he dropped the knife. I heard the shot, and when I saw that, I felt my legs go weak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was running into an empty street, the roommate said, neither a threat to officers nor anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t even talk to him,\" he said. \"They just shot him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roommates' statements prompted DA's investigators to descend back onto Folsom Street in late December, according to Smith and others in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens more people. Since then, the small community of former friends, family and their advocates have been awaiting Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has pledged to effectively end uses of deadly force against people with weapons other than a firearm, and the department continues to expand de-escalation and anti-bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the department makes those moves, it's confronted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">fresh controversies\u003c/a>. On April 7, two officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">shot and killed\u003c/a> Luis Gongora, another Spanish-speaking man allegedly wielding a knife, in the Mission District. As in the Amilar Perez Lopez case, some witnesses have contradicted the police account of the incident, which the department says occurred after Gongora lunged at officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas is editor-in-chief of Mission District neighborhood newspaper El Tecolote. Alex Emslie and Nicole Reinert are reporters for KQED News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10942092/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward","authors":["byline_news_10942092"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_19397","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10945141","label":"news_6944"},"news_10500396":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10500396","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10500396","score":null,"sort":[1429922011000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting","title":"Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting","publishDate":1429922011,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Attorneys representing the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant shot and killed by two San Francisco police officers in late February filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday alleging that independent autopsy findings contradict the Police Department's account of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents, said the version of events delivered by Police Chief Greg Suhr at a town hall meeting on March 2 was \"physically impossible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is that Amilcar Perez Lopez was unjustifiably, illegally, in the worst way shot and killed,\" Casillas said. \"The two police officers here had no reason to shoot and their version is absolutely, unequivocally inconsistent with all of the physical evidence, all of the witness testimony. It is a lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2\u003c/a> meeting that two plainclothes officers, later identified as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, responded to a call of a man with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26. Suhr presented dispatch records showing reports of a person with a knife chasing another man on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong, because we’re convinced he got it wrong.'\u003ccite>Bill Simpich,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a man with a bicycle, who has not been publicly identified, refused to sell his bike to Perez Lopez, and the construction worker began chasing him with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers confronted Perez Lopez and the bicyclist between two parked cars on the east side of Folsom, according to a Police Department rendition of the scene and statements by Suhr. It was not far from where Perez Lopez lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect was on the sidewalk side of the car, the victim was on the street side of the car,\" Suhr said, describing Perez Lopez as the suspect and the unidentified bicyclist as the victim. \"The officer attempted to position the suspect so he could see his hands, when the suspect turned, slashing the knife across at the officer, causing the officer to jump back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said witnesses heard both officers order the suspect to get back and drop the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers were approximately 5 to 6 feet away when the suspect charged at one of the officers with a knife raised overhead,\" Suhr said. \"Both officers discharged their firearms, one firing once, one firing five times. They struck the suspect. The suspect did not survive his injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses interviewed by \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> and another attorney representing Perez Lopez's family say Perez Lopez wasn't holding the knife when officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco medical examiner's autopsy report is not completed, a spokeswoman for the office said Friday, and she declined to give further information. Casillas said the official autopsy was conducted March 2, and Suhr addressed an angry Mission District crowd that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did he know? Or did he not inquire?\" Casillas said. \"You guys shot this kid in the back. This charging with a knife thing isn’t going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent forensic pathologist Jay Chapman, retained by Casillas, said it's impossible to exactly trace each one of the gunshots until the official autopsy report is released, but there is \"no question\" that all six gunshots hit Perez Lopez from behind. Read Chapman's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/262998787/Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-Private-Autopsy-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Witnesses say that he was ordered to put down the knife, and that he did throw down the knife before the shots were fired,\" said attorney Bill Simpich, who lives near the location of the shooting and started taking statements soon after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpich, also representing the family of Perez Lopez, said he has spoken to witnesses who said the unidentified bicyclist \"may have borrowed or stolen Amilcar's cellphone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bicyclist and Perez Lopez knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on March 2 that he didn't know if Perez Lopez knew the man with the bike, but he said the bicyclist thanked police on the scene, \"saying he thought the officers saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong,\" Simpich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas also requested a federal investigation into the shooting. In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/263003948/Letter-to-U-S-Attorney-Regarding-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 22 letter\u003c/a> to Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, Casillas references photographs and witness interviews that he did not release Friday. The letter indicates that Perez Lopez's body was in the street, not on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had the shooting occurred as [Suhr] has proffered to the media and the public, Mr. Perez Lopez's body would have ended up on the sidewalk, not at its actual location, 10 to 15 feet away in the street,\" the letter says. \"In light of [Suhr's] pronouncements attempting to justify the shooting, it is apparent that he and his department are intent on absolving the police officers of any criminal responsibility. As such, an investigation by your office is even more essential.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Police Department spokesman said Tiffe and Reboli have returned to active duty. He said he could not comment on ongoing investigations into the shooting by department homicide and internal affairs investigators. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office and the Office of Citizen Complaints are also looking into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the complaint filed on behalf of Amilcar Perez Lopez's family in U.S. District Court below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=262989139 key=key-glkuvxyKXYuGaWP2LWkM mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Tiffany Camhi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Independent pathologist says suspect was shot from behind, contrary to S.F. Police Department report. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1591484323,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":947},"headData":{"title":"Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting | KQED","description":"Independent pathologist says suspect was shot from behind, contrary to S.F. Police Department report. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting","datePublished":"2015-04-25T00:33:31.000Z","dateModified":"2020-06-06T22:58:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10500396 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10500396","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/","disqusTitle":"Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting","path":"/news/10500396/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys representing the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant shot and killed by two San Francisco police officers in late February filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday alleging that independent autopsy findings contradict the Police Department's account of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents, said the version of events delivered by Police Chief Greg Suhr at a town hall meeting on March 2 was \"physically impossible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is that Amilcar Perez Lopez was unjustifiably, illegally, in the worst way shot and killed,\" Casillas said. \"The two police officers here had no reason to shoot and their version is absolutely, unequivocally inconsistent with all of the physical evidence, all of the witness testimony. It is a lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2\u003c/a> meeting that two plainclothes officers, later identified as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, responded to a call of a man with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26. Suhr presented dispatch records showing reports of a person with a knife chasing another man on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong, because we’re convinced he got it wrong.'\u003ccite>Bill Simpich,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a man with a bicycle, who has not been publicly identified, refused to sell his bike to Perez Lopez, and the construction worker began chasing him with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers confronted Perez Lopez and the bicyclist between two parked cars on the east side of Folsom, according to a Police Department rendition of the scene and statements by Suhr. It was not far from where Perez Lopez lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect was on the sidewalk side of the car, the victim was on the street side of the car,\" Suhr said, describing Perez Lopez as the suspect and the unidentified bicyclist as the victim. \"The officer attempted to position the suspect so he could see his hands, when the suspect turned, slashing the knife across at the officer, causing the officer to jump back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said witnesses heard both officers order the suspect to get back and drop the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers were approximately 5 to 6 feet away when the suspect charged at one of the officers with a knife raised overhead,\" Suhr said. \"Both officers discharged their firearms, one firing once, one firing five times. They struck the suspect. The suspect did not survive his injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses interviewed by \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> and another attorney representing Perez Lopez's family say Perez Lopez wasn't holding the knife when officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco medical examiner's autopsy report is not completed, a spokeswoman for the office said Friday, and she declined to give further information. Casillas said the official autopsy was conducted March 2, and Suhr addressed an angry Mission District crowd that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did he know? Or did he not inquire?\" Casillas said. \"You guys shot this kid in the back. This charging with a knife thing isn’t going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent forensic pathologist Jay Chapman, retained by Casillas, said it's impossible to exactly trace each one of the gunshots until the official autopsy report is released, but there is \"no question\" that all six gunshots hit Perez Lopez from behind. Read Chapman's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/262998787/Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-Private-Autopsy-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Witnesses say that he was ordered to put down the knife, and that he did throw down the knife before the shots were fired,\" said attorney Bill Simpich, who lives near the location of the shooting and started taking statements soon after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpich, also representing the family of Perez Lopez, said he has spoken to witnesses who said the unidentified bicyclist \"may have borrowed or stolen Amilcar's cellphone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bicyclist and Perez Lopez knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on March 2 that he didn't know if Perez Lopez knew the man with the bike, but he said the bicyclist thanked police on the scene, \"saying he thought the officers saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong,\" Simpich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas also requested a federal investigation into the shooting. In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/263003948/Letter-to-U-S-Attorney-Regarding-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 22 letter\u003c/a> to Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, Casillas references photographs and witness interviews that he did not release Friday. The letter indicates that Perez Lopez's body was in the street, not on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had the shooting occurred as [Suhr] has proffered to the media and the public, Mr. Perez Lopez's body would have ended up on the sidewalk, not at its actual location, 10 to 15 feet away in the street,\" the letter says. \"In light of [Suhr's] pronouncements attempting to justify the shooting, it is apparent that he and his department are intent on absolving the police officers of any criminal responsibility. As such, an investigation by your office is even more essential.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Police Department spokesman said Tiffe and Reboli have returned to active duty. He said he could not comment on ongoing investigations into the shooting by department homicide and internal affairs investigators. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office and the Office of Citizen Complaints are also looking into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the complaint filed on behalf of Amilcar Perez Lopez's family in U.S. District Court below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/262989139/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-glkuvxyKXYuGaWP2LWkM\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/262989139\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_262989139\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/262989139\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Tiffany Camhi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10500396/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_19397","news_1300","news_5270","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10501373","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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